Organizational

The organizational retention dashboard reviews university retention rates by campus, college, department, program, and student level. The purpose of this dashboard is to help identify at-risk students who have low retention or academic progress rates within each area of FAU.

Student Characteristics

The student characteristics retention dashboards reviews progress and retention rates by the following characteristics: age, gender, ethnicity, marital status, residency, high school GPA and test scores, first generation students and delayed entry students.

Retention and Transfers

The retention and transfers dashboard reviews retention and progress rates, discontinuing students, and transfer institutions in three separate sections. The first section reviews the retention and progress rates for a cohort by class level. The second section reviews discontinuing student types (drop out, stop out, and transfers) according to cohort year. The third section reviews transfer institutions by the number of student transfers.

Financial Aid Retention

The financial aid retention dashboard reviews the correlation between financial aid and retention. The purpose of this dashboard is to identify at risk student based on financial aid. Four types of financial aid are reviewed in individual sections: grants, loans, scholarships and work study.

Academic Interventions

The academic interventions dashboard reviews the influence of student services on retention rates. The following student services are reviewed: SLS class, tutoring, undergraduate research, leadership programs, major knOWLedge, the ACCESS program, writing center, and math lab. The goal of this dashboard is to identify at-risk students participating or enrolled in a student service who have low retention or academic progress rates.

Living-Learning

The living-learning dashboard reviews retention rates of students according to residence halls and learning communities. Retention rates are reviewed at an overall level as well as with emphasis on discontinuing students (drop out, stop out, and transfers).

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